A Complete Timeline of Cardi B and Offset’s Relationship

Cardi B and Offset called it quits in 2020, TMZ reported at the time, but they reconciled before the end of the year and welcomed a new child in the fall of 2021. The couple's often tumultuous relationship has had its fair share of ups and downs prior to Cardi filing divorce papers in September 2020.

They started 2018 secretly married, but then dealt with cheating rumors. In April of that year, Cardi confirmed they were expecting a baby and that they were married. By the end of 2018, Cardi announced they’d fallen out of love and would be breaking up.

But the 2019 Grammys—including his onstage presence during her win—signaled they were back together for the foreseeable future. After she filed the divorce papers, he was by her side for her birthday in Vegas. Then, they reconciled, and Cardi dismissed the divorce case two months after she filed. They have been together since.

Ahead, we relive the big moments in an exhaustive timeline of their entire coupledom.

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Sometime in 2016: Cardi and Offset meet at an “industry event.”

Not much is known of the couple’s first meeting, but Cardi has said they first met at an “industry event” and Offset pursued her.

"He was very consistent," Cardi said in a video on her Twitter account, recapping the night they met. "He really wanted to talk to me.”

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Cardi B on meeting Offset pic.twitter.com/ovHUmYPBBh

— Hood Starz ⭐️ (@HoodStarzMusic) November 29, 2017

 

January 2017: They release a song together called “Lick.”

At this point, they were still ostensibly only collaborators and/or friends — and they were also still far from household names.

Cardi was still best known as a reality star at this point; her first hit, “Bodak Yellow,” wouldn’t come out for months. Migos’ “Bad and Boujee” was climbing the charts, after having been released in October 2016, so Offset’s star was on the rise.
 

Feb. 2, 2017: Offset appears on Cardi’s Instagram at the Super Bowl.

Cardi B and Offset attended the 2017 Super Bowl together. Cardi posted on her Instagram Story about it, referring to Offset as “my friend… you know what I’m saying?”

People sensed what was really up, though, and rumors started flying that the duo were dating. Offset confirmed to Rolling Stone in January 2018 that this had been the pair’s first real date. He called it a “power move,” but we’d say the real power move is putting a guy on your Instagram the first time he takes you out, while simultaneously referring to him as a friend.

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Feb. 14, 2017: Cardi posts a pic of them together with a kissy-face for Valentine’s Day, pretty much confirming they’re together.

The post has since been deleted, but it was a photo of them at the Super Bowl a few weeks earlier, according to Vibe. Offset commented with the boyfriend-girlfriend emoji, according to Bossip, so clearly they were well and truly hooking up by this point — although it’d be a long time before they admitted it.
 

June 22, 2017: Cardi continues to deny she’s dating Offset, this time in an interview.

Cardi nabbed the cover of Fader magazine, but refused to confirm or define her relationship with Offset. She did talk about his work ethic, though.

“It’s been a blessing, me meeting him and meeting his friends. I see how hard they work. And that motivated me to work even harder,” she told Fader. “And I see how good things are going for them and how popping it is to be number one. And I’m like, I want that.”
 

Aug. 27, 2017: Cardi drops a hilariously obvious marriage hint at the VMAs.

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While talking to Charlamagne Tha God, Cardi — who still hadn’t confirmed she was even dating Offset — said, "I'm a woman. Every woman, I think, wants to get married and wants to have children. It's never too early to get marrie

Not very subtle—but it apparently worked.
 

Sept. 20, 2017: Cardi and Offset get secretly married.

While the rest of the world was obsessing over her new single “Bodak Yellow,” Cardi was off getting married in secret, in Fulton County, Georgia.

The general public didn’t learn the news until TMZ tracked down the couple’s wedding certificate in June 2018. At that point, they’d been married for eight months but still hadn’t announced it to the public.
 

Oct. 22, 2017: Cardi posts that she’s “single,” then backtracks and says she was being “extreme.”

Over the course of a few hours, Cardi posted a selfie with the word “single,” then apparently took it back and confessed she was being “extreme.”

“So listen babes ,I exaggerated alil bit earlier cause I was really upset and the Bronx girl in me always have to go to the extreme,” she wrote, over a photo of Offset. “I came to my senses now.Im sorry ...waffle house on me ?”
 

Oct. 27, 2017: Offset “proposes” to Cardi onstage—even though they’re already secretly hitched.

Cardi and Offset made headlines with this proposal—but little did we all know, they were already married. Later, Cardi would reference the proposal in a statement about their wedding.

“I appreciate and love my husband so much for still wanting for me have that special moment that every girl dreams of,” she tweeted the following June, “when he got down on his knee and put a ring on my finger and he did that for me!!”

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This why i name my album “Invasion of privacy” cause people will do the most to be nosey about your life .Welp fuck it . pic.twitter.com/U3uHFOT3qK

— Cardi B (@iamcardib) June 25, 2018

 

Jan. 8, 2018: The couple is rocked by cheating rumors.

Offset was suspected of cheating on Cardi at the beginning of 2018. Rumors flew that he’d not only cheated on her, but made a sex tape with someone else. This wasn’t the first time rumors like these had popped up, and Cardi was already sick of hearing people’s opinions on her partner’s alleged infidelity.

"I'm going to make a decision in my own times with my heart and mind," she wrote on Twitter. "I don't need to be rushed or be told what to do. Its my life! I belong to me not to the world."
 

Feb. 3, 2018: People start speculating that Cardi’s pregnant, but she denies it and implores fans to let her “fat in peace.”

Cardi posted a video on Instagram and a fan, apropos of nothing, commented, “Is there maybe a Kylie Jenner secret that we need to know about lol Just asking,” referring to Kylie’s surprise-baby-heard-round-the-world.

Cardi swiftly responded, “No bitch I’m just getting fat. Let me fat in peace.”
 

Dani C and Cardi B: "Let me fat in peace" pic.twitter.com/mO0hHsV9TY

— PepperJess (@PepperJess) February 24, 2018

 

Feb. 14, 2018: TMZ reports that Cardi’s pregnant.

Apparently one of Cardi B’s staff members let it slip at a Super Bowl party that she was pregnant, and TMZ got their hands on the info. Cardi responded to their publication of the rumor by posting an angry photo of Buttercup from “The Powerpuff Girls” with the caption, “Getting on my damn nerves this morning.”

Feb. 27, 2018: Cardi explains why she stayed with Offset despite the rumors and basically tells everyone to eff off.

In her cover interview for Cosmopolitan, Cardi addressed all the drama that was swirling around the couple.

“Everybody is coming down my neck like, ‘Why are you not leaving him? You have low self-esteem.’ I don’t have low self-esteem,” she told Cosmopolitan. “I know I look good. I know I’m rich, I know I’m talented. I know I could get any man I want—any basketball player, football player.”

Cardi said she wanted to work things out with Offset—and added that she’s “no angel.”

“I want to work out my shit with my man, and I don’t got to explain why,” she said. “I’m not your property. This is my life ... I’m going to take my time, and I’m going to decide on my decision … It’s not right, what he fucking did—but people don’t know what I did, ’cause I ain’t no angel.”
 

April 2018: Cardi confirms her pregnancy at an SNL performance.

So much for fatting in peace. A beaming Cardi performed on Saturday Night Live in a tight white dress that showed off her pregnancy.
 

 

Offset posted on Instagram to thank fans for their support, but the post has since been deleted. The general public still believed the couple was engaged—not married—at this point.

 

June 25, 2018: TMZ breaks the news that the couple’s been married for eight months, and Cardi confirms.

Tricky tricky, Cardi and Offset. The couple managed to keep their nuptials secret all the way up until June 2018, when TMZ finally found their wedding certificate.

Cardi confirmed the news with a tweeted Notes App statement, as one does:

"There are so many moments that I share with the world and there are moments that I want to keep for myself! Getting married was one of those moments! Our relationship was so new breaking up and making up and we had a lot of growing to do but we was so in love we didn't want to lose each other."

The couple decided to get married on a whim one morning in September, she added:

“We found someone to marry us, and she did, just the two of us and my cousin. I said I do, with no dress, no makeup and no ring!”

She said in another tweet, “Well now since you lil nosey f*cks know at least ya can stop saying I had a baby out of wedlock.”
 

July 11, 2018: Cardi and Offset announce the birth of their baby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cardi posted an insanely epic pregnancy glam-shot along with the baby’s name, Kulture Kiari Cephus, and birthdate: July 10, 2018. She tagged Offset.

Aug. 31, 2018: Damning rumors about Cardi ordering an attack on two women in a strip club emerge.

There was trouble in paradise shortly after Kulture’s birth. Cardi was accused of throwing a bottle at two women in a strip club and ordering members of her entourage to attack them, according to TMZ.

One of the women was allegedly attacked on Aug. 15. Both claim Cardi’s posse attacked them on Aug. 29 when Migos were performing at the strip club where they worked as bartenders. Both the women and sources close to Cardi have said Cardi was not physically involved in the altercations. The women and TMZ allege that the attacks were ordered because Cardi thought Offset had cheated with one of the women.

Sept. 20, 2018: In honor of their one-year anniversary, Cardi shares a never-before-seen photo of the couple’s wedding.

It turns out Cardi and Offset got married in the most casual possible outfits: his-and-hers tracksuits.

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